Tech giant Apple is being sued by 25,000 South Koreans for what they claim is an invasion of their privacy by the collection of iPhone user location information.
They are each seeking £570 in damages, Kim Hyeong-seok, their lawyer, said.
Apple has faced complaints and criticisms since it said in April that its iPhones were storing locations of nearby phone towers and wi-fi hot spots for up to a year. Such data can be used to create a rough map of the device owner's movements.
Apple also revealed that a software bug caused iPhones to continue to send anonymous location data to the company's servers even when location services on the device were turned off. More...
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They are each seeking £570 in damages, Kim Hyeong-seok, their lawyer, said.
Apple has faced complaints and criticisms since it said in April that its iPhones were storing locations of nearby phone towers and wi-fi hot spots for up to a year. Such data can be used to create a rough map of the device owner's movements.
Apple also revealed that a software bug caused iPhones to continue to send anonymous location data to the company's servers even when location services on the device were turned off. More...
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